I Saw God Today

One perk of working nights is that I get to see the sun rise every morning. And I don't know if it's a location thing but they are all really good out here. It's hard to capture it on a camera though. All that steam was a pretty pink this morning, I turned around in the parking lot to take this.

(thank you George Strait for the faith building lyrics/song)

Monday Adventure Series

I have made an executive decision (in order to remedy my intense longing for Utah) to enjoy this place that I'm living in. I'm sad to say I find it extremely difficult to get out of my pajamas on Monday through Wednesday. I just love sleeping in my darkened room, reading, or doing more than my fair share of online shopping and social networking research. (when I put it like that it sounds real nice huh, not like a fat waste of time). I figure if I tell you about my Monday adventures I may be guilted into following through with them. I'm planning on just going downtown (into the district, as everyone around here says) for a while until I get sick of it, which I think will take a long time. On Monday I went to the Air and Space Museum. It's right on the national mall. And instead of taking the metro, my friend Travis found some free parking by the Jefferson memorial so we took a little (ok it was kind of long) walk around the tidal pool and past the Washington monument to get there. Travis felt bad about the tons of walking, but I loved the crap out of it. It was cold so the city wasn't busy, which made it very nice. And I haven't been down there when it's been "busy" so right now I still have good thoughts about the whole city in my mind.

Becky does this blog where she takes a picture everyday and I love it because I get to see so much of her life so I may start copying her, but don't have high expectations just yet. I took this on my phone when we crossed the Potomac on our way to the museum.

And this was at like 11 am, but the sky looked like a sunrise for a few hours, which I did not complain about.

My heart skips a beat when I observe tributes to great minds of philosophy and science. In the museum my friend asked me if I believed in the big bang. I chuckled and said "what do you think?" then he laughed and said "I don't know" and then he made me think of something I'd never thought before. He said he could believe it if Divinity was behind it. And I liked thinking about those things for once instead of boys and my credit card balance. Even though, if you hadn't inferred, I didn't escape the first stress for long during my visit to the museum.

"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow." -Robert H. Goddard, Father of Modern Rocketry

Not Technically Insomnia

I've been working night shifts for 3 weeks now, and my sleep pattern is just weird. So I went to bed at 5 pm and woke up at 2 am so I thought I'd get to blogging. Last week I was thinking about how boring my life is. I sleep, run, eat, work then repeat. Then I read and catch up on sleep during the weekends. So in order to remind me to be grateful for the calm, Bambi and his mother decided to run in front of my car while I was driving at or around 40 mph, in the evening when the sun was setting and I had the least possible chance of seeing his stupid butt. My car is tore up. Every time I look at the crumpled hood I feel the tears welling up. Brand new baby all messed up.

But I'm safe. And my friend gave me his truck while he's in Boston for two weeks, which was nice to have something Monday and Tuesday. And last night, Captain Creepy who works at enterprise picked me up and gave me a brand new corolla. Check out my little fleet.

If you look closely at the car you can see a stupid deer profile on the hood in dirt and oil. His pretty ugly little face and ear are outlined when the car gets frosty. I'm not letting this get me too down though. It's just a thing. And even though I get upset sometimes, I can't help but feel grateful that I'm safe, and that I have so many blessings I can barely count them. At least someone didn't shoot my car right? ;)